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I love my son, Alex. My life changed the moment I found out I was pregnant. My husband are both young, and didn't expect to get pregnant so soon. With our luck, really, it didn't surprise me much. I was on birth control at the time I conceived, and when my period didn't arrive, I immediately went out and bought a pregnancy test. Positive. My husband and I sort of panicked at the idea of having a baby. We finally sorted out our feelings, what we would do. Most of my pregnancy, not much happens.

We were the 0.01% that got pregnant while on birth control. Lucky eh? Well, during my 7th month of pregnancy, guess what. We're now also part of the 2% that gets gestational diabetes. Everything I loved to eat, now had to be managed into smaller portions, or not eaten at all. I had to test my blood sugars 7 times a day, every second day. Such a pain. As my pregnancy grew closer to my due date, my sugars had a hard time staying down in the evening, and once in a while, during the day. Insulin became another burden. Giving myself a shot before dinner every night. I had to suck it up and deal with it. I hated not being able to give in to my cravings, and I didn't want to substitute with a fake. I had to keep telling myself, this is for baby's sake.

I was due July 1st, I was excited, family had flown out to be here for the birth. I prayed for an easy delivery and that he'd come on time. Again, luck would make it that I wouldn't start labor until 9 days later. Family all had to go back home, back to work. It was my husband and me. I was scheduled to be induced on the 10th. I went into labor during the wee hours on the 9th. I knew immediately, when I was having early labor contractions. People would tell me that it felt like period cramps. At first yeah, but later on, far from it. It started, contractions 15 to 45 minutes apart. By 10 am they were getting painful. Really painful. I couldn't deal with the pain anymore. I called the hospital and told them I needed something for the pain. I just couldn't function. My husband and I went to the hospital, they checked on baby, he was fine. They gave me some morphine, told me that I was 1cm dilated, to go home and get some rest. I slept pretty much the whole day.

When I awoke, my husband made me dinner, asked me how I was feeling. He tended to me very well, and it made me feel a lot better. Contractions started up again, after my husband had gone off to bed. The pain was getting worse. Worse than the morning pains. I couldn't sleep.

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